The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - UK & Ireland
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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UK mmWave vendor CBNG collapses after loss of Verizon deal
The company entered administration in early October
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Fireworks contracts 5MW of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra capacity at Era4 data center in UK
Will be hosted in Era4's Chesterfield data center
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Virgin Media O2 confirms plans to cut thousands of jobs, aims to save £800m by 2029
As company says it's halting investment in further fiber upgrades
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Tract expands into UK, plans 500MW campus in Durham
Company seeking feedback on plans for seven-building campus
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Drax partners with Brookfield and Radiant for up to 1GW data center at North Yorkshire power station
First phase targeting 100MW of capacity by 2028
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Virgin Media O2 to cut thousands of jobs in cost-savings push - report
Sky News reports that up to 4,000 roles could be impacted
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National Grid buys land in Teesside, UK, for 3.2GW substation to power AI data center
Expected to support AI growth zone data center
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Data center mooted in Glasgow by Scottish automotive firm
Local automotive company sounding out local council about a project near Cowlairs Park
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Openreach issues warning over January's PSTN switch-off
Warns that businesses will count the cost if they don't migrate from legacy ISDN services
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Virgin Media O2 nears agreement to use BT's broadband network - report
The FT reports that Virgin Media O2 could pause its own fiber infrastructure buildout
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Telehouse closes acquisition of Docklands office campus in UK, plans 65MW data center
KKDI-owned operator buys office block next to existing London campus
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UK's Volta takes over Reynolds House data center in Manchester
Company takes over former Telecity/Equinix site from Lunar Digital
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UK budget: Grid connection incentives for data centers under new “covenant”
Chancellor also discussed aims to help the public benefit from AI upsides
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Virgin Media O2 kicks off 2Gbps broadband rollout in UK
Rolls the service out to 18 locations
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TPG eyes UK data center firm Ark - report
UK operator could be valued at $5 billion
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easyJet to offer Starlink in-flight WiFi from next year
The airline carrier becomes the latest to partner with Starlink
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SWI launches AI cloud unit SWI Compute
Company launching with 30MW at group's planned Cambridge development
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O2, Nokia complete AI RAN deployment at O2’s Giga Site in London Paddington
Claims it to be the first UK live deployment of AI-RAN
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UK gov't looks to introduce tougher prison sentences and unlimited fines to subsea cable saboteurs
Current legislation on subsea cable damage dates back to 1885
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Kao Data to host CommonAI's AI Scaling Inference Lab at Harlow data center
Lab to host Nvidia and AMD hardware
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Georgia's Silk Cloud deploys Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs
UK-based Fuse Energy also brings GPU compute online for customers
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Virgin Media O2 demos Starlink's satellite coverage in remote north Wales
The test outlined the challenges that satellite faces against terrestrial
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Era4 reveals details of hyperscale data center planned for former steelworks in Newport, Wales
First GPUs set to come online next year, could eventually reach 1GW
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BT bolsters 5G Standalone footprint, confirms AI-RAN trials with Nokia, Nvidia
The AI-RAN trials are set to take place in the UK's second city next year
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Cable theft causes Openreach broadband outage for thousands in Thurnscoe, UK
Thieves caused disruption while hunting for copper
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Nexfibre rejects "fundamentally flawed" CMA verdict on £2bn Netomnia acquisition
Declines to offer remedies to regulator
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Developer looks to convert hotel basement into data center in Lancashire, UK
66-year-old hotel getting a facelift
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Google experiences "service disruption" in UK cloud region
Number of banks report issues